Solution

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In the overlap region , write . The supplied Airy function asymptotics give
The outer prefactor tends to one in this overlap. Therefore
The recessive condition gives and . Hence the leading inner answer is
Away from the turning point, the matched WKB approximation is
A useful multiplicative composite expansion through the turning region is : it is finite and normalized at zero and matches the displayed outer expression for fixed positive . It is a small- approximation across the turning point, not a claim of relative uniform accuracy out to arbitrarily large .

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